General SEO Question

[RabBell]

Didn't know where to post this so I thought I'd have a go here

Do you guys know if commented out code in a HTML page has any effect at all on anything? I'm thinking maybe SEO?

What has happened is I was looking through my companies HTML Source and I've discovered some lines of commented out code, advertising a local college. Now because the lines are commented out, the ad doesn't show on the pages...but I'm wondering if it maybe effects the SEO for the colleges web site.

By the way I didn't build the site. I've only been at the company 2 months and the whole site is run through a CMS. A home built CMS. Looking through the site the source code I've dicovered the code is on every page. I don't have access to the CMS source code so I can't remove it myself.

What do you guys think, would this effect the colleges SEO or not?

[thats all folks]

I've been told that a comment or two doesn't bother the bots, but the code commented out has to be short. Blotted bad code can make a bot leave, which some CMS's produce. Poor coding builds SEO Dams.

[Jeff Wheeler]

Nah, I bet Google reads right over it.

[thats all folks]

That is not to say that small errors in your HTML code will spell death for your search engine rankings. Certainly they won’t normally make your page invisible to spiders.

They can, however, disrupt the vastly important process of a spider parsing your page for all relevant content or make some of that content invisible. And since so much of SEO is paying close attention to every little detail of your site and its content, why leave the possibility open of causing problems for search engines when they try to index your pages?

[michellebarkley]

Thanx for this information

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